Council response to situation, including committee meetings We dialled-in to a conference call of all councillors with the Council Chief Executive late Monday afternoon to hear about the Council’s response and business continuity plans. The Council have now cancelled all committee meetings. The Council will be publishing regular updates with…

In this year’s council budget speech we proposed scrapping the Tories ‘£70 Garden Tax. We also included funding for quarterly deep cleans of all Barnet’s residential streets, and extra resources for tackling the epidemic of fly-tipping that blights our borough. And because we believe in fairness and tackling poverty pay,…

In my speech at this year’s Council budget meeting I focused on the issue of fairness – or lack of it –  in the Barnet Conservative budget. In the run-up to the local elections last May, the Barnet Conservatives pledged to keep council tax low. They didn’t say exactly what…